For several years now I have been using regular EVAPORATED MILK to fix coolant leaks. It only seals the leaks and doesn't plug up anything else. It is the only form of stop leak that is approved by John Deere for use in their machines that will not void the warranty and will work on anything from seeps to streams and even blown head gaskets and thin cracks in blocks or heads, radiators, heater cores and more and once it is set up it will last for years. I used it on a blown head gasket on my ex wife's Suburban 6 years ago and it is still holding up fine. I also used it on my 63 Dodge that had a leaky radiator and a leaky heater core. It has not lost any coolant in over 7 years. You can find information on using it as a fix for cooling systems if you search online just as I did. If it is good enough for a company like John Deere to use without voiding their warranty on equipment that can cost several hundreds of thousands of dollars, it is good enough for me to trust using in any vehicle that I own.
I wrote GM service manuals for many years. That’s half the story. They will fix porosity issues but they will also micro finish the water pump shaft to seal/bearing interface. They were specified to stop many water pump seeps. As Tony said they are good for weeping issues. They do unfortunately migrate back into the overflow tanks over time and make it look like you put sawdust in your coolant bottle. But they work and are totally safe.
Years ago, Mom was driving around looking for a temporary leak stop in the heater core of the 1966 Pontiac Executive. Eggs and pepper were mentioned as well as oatmeal. She said she wanted to stop the leak, not make breakfast.
I saw the egg trick done on TV several years ago. I think it was on Mythbusters. I've used pepper in the coolant in almost every vehicle I've owned in the last 20 years. I used to be a daily regular customer at a couple of bars and restaurants in my area. All I would do occasionally was ask for a quarter cup of pepper. On my way out going to work, I would drop the pepper into the radiator then start the engine and go on my way. If you work in remote camps and you have an offroading accident, also keep a bar of soap in your glove compartment. If you bottomed out over a boulder and puctured the gas tank. A bar of soap will temporarily seal the hole. you go underneath your vehicle and you push the bar of soap into the hole in the gas tank and you'll form sort of a wax like seal to slow down or stop the fuel leak.
I have found black pepper and the eggs work best together. Years ago I used them both on a Ford 3.8 that had a bad head gasket between the coolant and oil passages. It was a rusty beater thunderbird I bought for $500, and wasn’t worth fixing, but I tried the black pepper and eggs, and managed to get another year and a half and 20k miles out of it!
I'm going on 72 years young. I remember as a kid folks using pepper and it held! Like the old sheet asbestos, soup or coffee can and wire to repair exhaust leaks! Best to ya',,,,!
I have personally used fine cayenne pepper to seal a pinhole in a rad core of my 95' F350 powersmoke. It was perfectly sealed for the 6mo it was in use till I put a new rad in it. Its fantastic stuff. It had a solid stream pinhole and it sealed it almost immediately after adding it to the rad. This was with the cap put back on and full normal coolant system pressure too. It never leaked another drop. My buddy has an old brick nose 7.3L IDI that had a cayenne pepper fix for a good 15yrs+ that never leaked either. Its not "fixed" but I'll be damned if it didn't think otherwise.
Pulled a 1970 440 + 727 and drive shaft out of a station wagon around 1985 for $275 bucks in a scrap yard in NJ, brought home to Queens, knocked out the freeze plugs, and proceeded to flush out a FANTASTIC amount of SAW DUST from the block- for over an hour! Popped in new freeze plugs, dropped in a 1974 4 door Plymouth Valiant (had a 318, 904TF, 270k miles) with the 727TF and shortened driveshaft and rear ( which stuck out a few inches on each side- used air shocks for clearance w/re- arched springs). THAT car, for a total investment UNDER 1000 BUCKS, was a MONSTER! FASTER out the hole than my 440 six-pack 1971 convertible Challenger, which had a 509 cam at that time. Later, a solid roller lifter custom ground from Chet Herbert fixed that 60ft. Issue. But the 1970 440 WAGON MOTOR WAS STOCK WITH 80K ON IT, and previously had a ton of sawdust in its veins!
We had to do this with the black pepper in 1979 @ Ft Lewis when my buddy's 67 T-Bird 390 was leaking and it worked but smelled like pepper with the heater on. 😁👍
My old neighbor , Mr Fortner , was 96 when he passed away . He'd been an auto body specialist for 40 years and was an all around shade tree mechanic . He drove a 37 Ford pickup , a flat head . It had a cracked block for as long as I knew him ( maybe 25 years ) his solution was a tablespoon each of table salt and finely ground aluminum powder . He had a long winded explanation on how and why it worked to seal the crack , but every year , he'd add his mixture one time ...and have no problems for another year . As I recall he ran the radiator cap loose , just to the first click , to keep it on . I've dont the pepper trick many times , just to get home . Following Mt Fortners advice , I even made a big end rod insert with an old belt when nothing else was available . That was a 4 cyl flat head Dodge I believe .
Uncle Tony puts those GM Northstar tablets in his coffee every morning. No seepage for the rest of the day, not to mention the nutty spicy flavor is to die for. ☕
Back in the 1950's, General Electric was starting up their new J79 jet engine. It immediately developed a leak in some internal engine part. It would have taken weeks to disassemble the engine to fix the leak. Fortunately their shop leader was a old guy from Germany, called "Herman the German". He had learned this old trick when he was trained as a car mechanic in around 1925. When a car came in with a cooling system leak, his boss would instruct him to find a milk delivery van. In those days the vans were towed by horses and their route was a cheap, i.e., free source of horse droppings. A scoop of those and you had a free and effective radiator stop-leak. Fortunately the jet engine lab was out in the country so they didn't have to go far to find some horse droppings. Worked like a charm.
Yellow mustard works every time 💯 of the time my grandfather used it on the farm in the 50s my forklift has been fixed with mustard for 9 years now never has leaked
I live in the Mojave desert, 120 in the shade, and used to haul 300 gal water tank to my cabin 25 miles one way from town. Water trailer weighed at nearly 3000 lbs total, using my 1965 Chevy Malibu wagon w/327 powerslide. I hit a coyote (accidentally!) at 45mph and got a peehole in my radiator. Put in half a can of pepper a few times and continued to march. 8 years later was STILL HOLDING, but topped off my pepper every couple months. And it smelled GOOD! Also used pepper on a Dodge motorhome, and am currently using on my rusted out and gushing factory freezeplugs (97 Dakota) still holding great, 3000 miles desert driving so far. Got city water, no more hauling. Tech tip- DO NOT TRY OATMEAL!🙄
@@DougsterWolverineGarage had a whole sleeve of these that you would find in the auto parts stores. In the 80's/90's it was in little cardboard tubes with metal ends. The product of that vintage was excellent. Im a fan of cayenne pepper too, it works quite well.
Those AC Delco tabs were called out in the factory service manual for the '85 Cadillac Eldorado I once had. Had to use them pretty frequently as the recommended coolant replacement interval was pretty tight since the HT4100 was a rather fragile engine.
I remember taking apart the late 90's, early 2000's GM garbage. Cooling systems would look like somebody took a turd inside them and then they put the engine together. All the plastic intake gaskets🤣
This trick works VERY well. I blew a hole in my rad in my 1980 C10 with the original rad a year and a half ago. Isolated in northern Ontario, pulling my camper with my wife and son! The hole was at the bottom of the rad and I had a bit of water in a jug, I topped it off and added 2 tablespoons of table pepper. Within 15 miles, the leak slowed down. Within 40 miles it was completely plugged. I got home, swapped in a new rad and all is good. One issue: my heater core got plugged from it too, so I needed to replace it, but not for months. Pepper works brilliantly!!!! Best road trip hack ever.
I've used the pepper remedy many times back in the day for dripping leak and oatmeal for the severe leak. I didn't know eggs would work but, now i do. Thanks Uncle Tony 👍
I used those tablets on the assembly line, building Dodge trucks in the '00s. Two tabs, fill, cap. I was really surprised when I was being trained for that job, that it was part of the process from the factory. I figured it was just compressed saw dust, like mdf. A pocket full made it home with me, maybe a dozen. They've helped me out of a few pinches.
Good job uncle Tony On the subject of food and car engines, here in Australia there has been a number of people over the years whom put out recipes on how to cook while you’re driving across the Nullarbor using aluminium foil and putting things like steak and potatoes wrapped up and wired down to the exhaust manifold whilst you’re driving and there’s one fella, who put out a whole recipe book of how to cook using the heat from the motor under the bonnet….!!! Mainly things like meat, carrots, potatoes, you never see them using eggs for some reason ………. But a side of lamb no problem……..
Hi Tony, GM had a seperate part number for Cadillacs in the late 80's for their 4.1 engines that was supposed to be put in the radiator every time that the radiator cap was removed. Cadillacs had issues with the intake manifolds bolts would lose torque and let coolant into the crankcase. I also have a 1995 Chevy C3500 with a 5.7 and 282K miles on it. The intake has a seeping external leak and I have been putting GM seal tabs in it for the last 20 years to keep it from leaking. I also put seal tabs of my 62 Valiant aluminum 225 slant 6 that had corrosion on the back of the block covered by the bell housing. The seal tabs worked so well that when the head gasket blew it pushed coolant out of a heater hose connection and not from the back of the block.
I remember using the "Sealtabs" in the early 90s when I worked for the local GM dealership. It was , like you said, SOP any time we worked on the cooling system. Thanks for the great video.
I'm dating myself but I'm asking you a question about finding the old GM emulsions seal renewal? I love that stuff door seals T roofs trunk lids you used to slather with a cotton applicator and it would renew and it would swell up old rubber seals overnight
Sage street smarts from the mean streets of the Bronx & Andy Grifith! I remember an eppisode where goober droped an egg in a Model A & then used Gran' Pa's suspenders for a belt. Tony, I bet you have a THOUSAND roadkill style survival stories...would love to hear about them. Vice grips on the battery terminals...Cylanders full of fence posts...chewing gum wrappers around blown fuses...not all recomended...BUT, if it got you out of harms way...until proper repairs could be made....GOTTA be proud of them.
These items do work. I remember years ago when GM started using those pellets. I ordered a replacement part at a dealer and they added those to the order and I thought they were ripping me off! I called them and said, why would I need stop leak since I'm replacing the water pump? They told me GM had now made these mandatory to all their cars and I needed them for any warranty.
Key Word in it.... "Temporary" I've been asked about the Pepper & Egg trick many times, and technically..... yes it will get you off the side of the road or out of mountains if you need it. But that's about all it will do because just like you said, it will blow right back out. That is why I tell everyone that askes..... "No, it doesn't work" I just got tired of people coming back and saying it only lasted for 3 days or a week and it did it again. As for the GM Pellets. You put them in the lower radiator hose, so it coats the inside of the block (and most of those cars don't have a radiator cap). As you said in this, it's not really a "Stop Leak Fix" it's more of a coating you put in for the exact reasons you mentioned. Minor leaks.... it probably does but it's not what it's actually designed to do. On a side note, to this....... Eggs Stink to High Heaven!!!!!!!!! I don't know how many dozens of eggs this guy tried in one, but when it came into the shop it was an experience I'll NEVER forget. Good Stuff as always UTG!
My grandfather told me never use stop leak but rather eggs. He claimed Ford used to put eggs in the radiator right on the assembly line (im guessing in the 30s or 40s). Not sure if that's a myth or not.
Great old-school tip there Tony. Have done the egg trip to crawl home at least twice, maybe more! But can confirm it does work. As called out, key is to not pop the rad cap on all the way. Happy new year! 😎
I have personally used this for myself and a broke down van in the middle of the desert......small jar of MUSTARD worked so fast & saved the day (the really small jar)
Fix it with food,like the boss did to the new guy trying to adjust a worn carb. This was years ago. While it was running ,the boss sauntered over while eating a big mac. He grabbed the throttle and yanked it wide open and crammed the burger in the carb 😂
My late grandfather taught me these tricks. He worked in the north Maine woods as pulp scaler deep upcountry far from help. He made gaskets from paper shopping bags, what ever needed to keep going.
My Kiwi mate had a Valiant with a 245 cube six and a Borg Warner 35 tranny, it had a leak in the welch plug at the back of the head that I found him trying to repair with one of his girlfriend’s tampons. When this proved futile I suggested using eggs as I knew from previous experience that he had no intention of fixing it correctly. It worked so well that he went through a dozen eggs a day. The engine also consumed four litres of oil on an average day so every time the temp gauge rose to a dangerous level the person riding shotgun would spring from the vehicle with eggs, water and oil for a refill then on for another twenty k’s. As it had no reverse the passenger was also required to be the Auxiliary Propulsion Unit. To add to the overall effect the muffler was ripped open on a grate so the roiling black smoke rolled out from under the back. We called this “going full Maori”. Kiwi would understand.
Hit a deer in a 69 Dodge D200, a $400 truck I had on the 90s while my 1 ton diesel was in the shop. Damned radiator broke loose on top and hit the fan. I'm in Minnesota industrial farm country, nothing but corn and bean fields for miles, no lakes, rivers, or swamps. Fortunately, the air compressor I was pulling had a 6V-71 engine, and more importantly 15 gallons of coolant. Get to the next "town" there's a C-store open, they got Stop Leak, grab one of each brands, three or four, whatever they had. Dump um all in, no change. Bought more in the next town, nothing. I think eggs probably would've worked, didn't think of it at the time. Made it home filling the radiator every few miles, 318 missing from wet wires. Next day my 4 or 5 year old daughter and I soldered up the radiator. She's 30 now, and solders really really well. 🤣
Cream of wheat stops leaks. I saw it in my radiator shop years ago. It also stopped all the flow. The guy said it stopped the leak but it started leaking again, so he poured in the rest of the box. The car came to me on a tow truck. When I removed the offending tank, there was a perfect solid piece of cream of wheat that was the shape of the tank and it fell on the floor. The shop smelled like breakfast. We hot tanked the radiator, flushed the system, and put the radiator back together. He was good to go.
Back in 1979, a slant six pulled in with 2 an a half crack in the block, my cuban friend mixed the egg whites with crushed red peppers, mixed them, add them and it instantly sealed the leak.
In the UK , egg in the rad is well known but never heard of adding pepper.we used Colmans mustard powder. Also sawdust in noisy trans. Condensed milk will stick tiles tiles back on!
i tried to ship some "Alumaseal" from the USA to here in Mexico and the DHL/Customs could not determine contents and prohibited its entry. Thankfully, I later found it in a local Mexican auto parts store. Still like the product.
Ok the black pepper thing is new to me. I should try that one out on a 1966 El Camino. The eggs are an old trick. Known guys to use it. I’ve been down that road of putting too much stop leak in a radiator and gumming stuff up. I do like the GM coolant tabs. Used them a couple times.
Cooking with UTG 👍 Another temporary fix for a slipping fanbelt is syrup. And there's no need for fancy expensive maplesyrup ones, unless you live in Cananada!
Saw eggs, pepper and oatmeal used by my dad's okie buddy back in the late 60's on an old '56 chevy with a leaky radiator. I was just a teenage gear head wannabe, couldn't believe what I was seeing and yet...it worked!
I remember in the early 70s driving thru baja and mainland off road and getting coolant/ radiator damage 50 miles f r om anywhere and using surf wax into the radiator grills and red chilli pepper,and driving Another 500 miles successfully! True story
We need more of those old school get home quick fix to keep the knowledge in the memories. My uncle even clog a hole cylinder with a wood block on is inline 6 in the 60's after he broke a connecting rod and piston. He drove that engine for 2 years. It was like that back then. You didnt have money or a car parts store every where.
I have seen older mechanics and shade tree mechanics do some of the fixes you are talking about. I never used them but on older cars certainly worth a try.
Thankyou Uncle Tony, i have an SBC 400 with a tiny leak from a head bolt and wondered if i should use a bottle of bars. Ill take the bolt out and put more thread sealant on it.
Iv done it. It works. Iv also cleaned a cylinder head that had stop leak in it. Idk seemed like more the a can. Boi what a plugged up mess. Also a good mention, never ever ever put cold gas station gallons of water in your radiator. If your having a problem. Room temperature is what you want
Never heard of eggs, I agree with the stop leak issues, except one the plastic tube with the brass or copper shavings, had an 1987 Chevy truck with 350 motor, heater core leaking put the shavings in at around 60k miles it stopped the leak, drove the truck over 200k miles never leaked again and heater still worked. Thought after flushing I would need to install new heater core but nope never leaked again.
GM tab's are strongly mandated starting with the Cadillac HT series, aluminum block iron head's, and I make sure to use it every year or two when I flush and replace the coolant in my 91 Coup DeVille....it works, but when the steel pipe the lower radiator hose goes to corrodes a hole, none of that junk will help.
This is the long awaited, by 5 years, prequel to the UTG radiator hack video. I preferred the pacing, brevity, stunt work, practical effects and swearing of the original video. "Oh No! The rad-iator in our old school daily driver is Fuc*%d!!" "It's got a crack in the tank, so eggs and pepper won't do." Please swear again Uncle Tony. We like the director's cut of UTG.
Dang, the freeze plugs started leaking in my '95 T-10 Blazer with a Vortec V6. I paid a mechanic a few hundred $$$ to replace them all. Too bad this video didn't exist back then, or I would have tried these tablets.
Those tablets actually started in the 80s as a requirement in the 4.1L V8 that came in the Cadillac and then remained required for the Northstar motors
Breakfast is the most important roadside fix of the day.
lol
Where's the bacon?
Imagine how well Cream of Wheat would work!😆
Coffee and a Marlboro, breakfast of champions.
lol
For several years now I have been using regular EVAPORATED MILK to fix coolant leaks. It only seals the leaks and doesn't plug up anything else. It is the only form of stop leak that is approved by John Deere for use in their machines that will not void the warranty and will work on anything from seeps to streams and even blown head gaskets and thin cracks in blocks or heads, radiators, heater cores and more and once it is set up it will last for years. I used it on a blown head gasket on my ex wife's Suburban 6 years ago and it is still holding up fine. I also used it on my 63 Dodge that had a leaky radiator and a leaky heater core. It has not lost any coolant in over 7 years. You can find information on using it as a fix for cooling systems if you search online just as I did. If it is good enough for a company like John Deere to use without voiding their warranty on equipment that can cost several hundreds of thousands of dollars, it is good enough for me to trust using in any vehicle that I own.
I wrote GM service manuals for many years. That’s half the story. They will fix porosity issues but they will also micro finish the water pump shaft to seal/bearing interface. They were specified to stop many water pump seeps. As Tony said they are good for weeping issues. They do unfortunately migrate back into the overflow tanks over time and make it look like you put sawdust in your coolant bottle. But they work and are totally safe.
Years ago, Mom was driving around looking for a temporary leak stop in the heater core of the 1966 Pontiac Executive. Eggs and pepper were mentioned as well as oatmeal. She said she wanted to stop the leak, not make breakfast.
Gusher, drip or a seep.. us old guys know all about that Tony.
I saw the egg trick done on TV several years ago. I think it was on Mythbusters. I've used pepper in the coolant in almost every vehicle I've owned in the last 20 years. I used to be a daily regular customer at a couple of bars and restaurants in my area. All I would do occasionally was ask for a quarter cup of pepper. On my way out going to work, I would drop the pepper into the radiator then start the engine and go on my way. If you work in remote camps and you have an offroading accident, also keep a bar of soap in your glove compartment. If you bottomed out over a boulder and puctured the gas tank. A bar of soap will temporarily seal the hole. you go underneath your vehicle and you push the bar of soap into the hole in the gas tank and you'll form sort of a wax like seal to slow down or stop the fuel leak.
I just saw the soap trick on Roadkill. It worked. I used the pepper all the time in my cars when I was young & couldn't afford to fix my radiator.
I have found black pepper and the eggs work best together. Years ago I used them both on a Ford 3.8 that had a bad head gasket between the coolant and oil passages. It was a rusty beater thunderbird I bought for $500, and wasn’t worth fixing, but I tried the black pepper and eggs, and managed to get another year and a half and 20k miles out of it!
The old man who taught me this trick INSISTED on 2 eggs and a whole can of pepper! So, I agree they work best together
Eggs, black pepper and bacon. Now I feel better.
Well said TAVO!
I'm going on 72 years young. I remember as a kid folks using pepper and it held! Like the old sheet asbestos, soup or coffee can and wire to repair exhaust leaks!
Best to ya',,,,!
Whole black pepper balls for freeze plug leaks when they get Rusty.
UT and Mcguyver--The dynamic duo of the automotive world!😎
McGuyver fixed bullet holes in the radiator with eggs.
@@BadWolf762 And disarmed a thermo nuclear device with a chocolate bar
An old farmer told me about that years ago I used it pepper in my 77 Land Cruiser and I’m using it in my 2008 Cadillac DTS
I myself use/carry Hamburger Dill Chip Pickles! for all of my road side repairs from flats , leaky radiator's and bullet holes
I have personally used fine cayenne pepper to seal a pinhole in a rad core of my 95' F350 powersmoke. It was perfectly sealed for the 6mo it was in use till I put a new rad in it. Its fantastic stuff. It had a solid stream pinhole and it sealed it almost immediately after adding it to the rad. This was with the cap put back on and full normal coolant system pressure too. It never leaked another drop. My buddy has an old brick nose 7.3L IDI that had a cayenne pepper fix for a good 15yrs+ that never leaked either. Its not "fixed" but I'll be damned if it didn't think otherwise.
I've seen the pepper work more than once.....
gm started using them on the 4.1 engine because all that sealed the cylinder wall to the block was a oring. this was late 70s.
Pulled a 1970 440 + 727 and drive shaft out of a station wagon around 1985 for $275 bucks in a scrap yard in NJ, brought home to Queens, knocked out the freeze plugs, and proceeded to flush out a FANTASTIC amount of SAW DUST from the block- for over an hour! Popped in new freeze plugs, dropped in a 1974 4 door Plymouth Valiant (had a 318, 904TF, 270k miles) with the 727TF and shortened driveshaft and rear ( which stuck out a few inches on each side- used air shocks for clearance w/re- arched springs). THAT car, for a total investment UNDER 1000 BUCKS, was a MONSTER! FASTER out the hole than my 440 six-pack 1971 convertible Challenger, which had a 509 cam at that time. Later, a solid roller lifter custom ground from Chet Herbert fixed that 60ft. Issue. But the 1970 440 WAGON MOTOR WAS STOCK WITH 80K ON IT, and previously had a ton of sawdust in its veins!
We had to do this with the black pepper in 1979 @ Ft Lewis when my buddy's 67 T-Bird 390 was leaking and it worked but smelled like pepper with the heater on. 😁👍
My old neighbor , Mr Fortner , was 96 when he passed away . He'd been an auto body specialist for 40 years and was an all around shade tree mechanic . He drove a 37 Ford pickup , a flat head . It had a cracked block for as long as I knew him ( maybe 25 years ) his solution was a tablespoon each of table salt and finely ground aluminum powder . He had a long winded explanation on how and why it worked to seal the crack , but every year , he'd add his mixture one time ...and have no problems for another year . As I recall he ran the radiator cap loose , just to the first click , to keep it on . I've dont the pepper trick many times , just to get home . Following Mt Fortners advice , I even made a big end rod insert with an old belt when nothing else was available . That was a 4 cyl flat head Dodge I believe .
WOW, while watching the likes went from 403 to 460 ! !! Never seen that happen B4. Luv ya work
Uncle Tony puts those GM Northstar tablets in his coffee every morning. No seepage for the rest of the day, not to mention the nutty spicy flavor is to die for. ☕
K-Seal, about 4 years ago. Heater core leak. Fixed. H. Core in '98 F150 requires 2 guys all day to remove. $1000 bill. K-Seal, $12.
Wow never heard of eggs before, thanks Tony
Back in the 1950's, General Electric was starting up their new J79 jet engine. It immediately developed a leak in some internal engine part. It would have taken weeks to disassemble the engine to fix the leak. Fortunately their shop leader was a old guy from Germany, called "Herman the German". He had learned this old trick when he was trained as a car mechanic in around 1925. When a car came in with a cooling system leak, his boss would instruct him to find a milk delivery van. In those days the vans were towed by horses and their route was a cheap, i.e., free source of horse droppings. A scoop of those and you had a free and effective radiator stop-leak. Fortunately the jet engine lab was out in the country so they didn't have to go far to find some horse droppings. Worked like a charm.
How did you not do this episode with a chef's hat and apron on? I always add garlic to my oil and my car hasn't been sick in years!
Don't feed the troll
I saw the egg trick on an old episode of MacGyver. It was one of those things that stood out and stuck with me ever since.
Yellow mustard works every time 💯 of the time my grandfather used it on the farm in the 50s my forklift has been fixed with mustard for 9 years now never has leaked
I say Old chap... would you have any grey poopon?
Powdered mustard, right?
Maybe with all these food remedies that radiator leaks cuz it get hungry!😆
@hobbyhermit66 nope the stuff that we put on sandwiches
Don't feed the trolls
I live in the Mojave desert, 120 in the shade, and used to haul 300 gal water tank to my cabin 25 miles one way from town. Water trailer weighed at nearly 3000 lbs total, using my 1965 Chevy Malibu wagon w/327 powerslide.
I hit a coyote (accidentally!) at 45mph and got a peehole in my radiator.
Put in half a can of pepper a few times and continued to march.
8 years later was STILL HOLDING, but topped off my pepper every couple months. And it smelled GOOD!
Also used pepper on a Dodge motorhome, and am currently using on my rusted out and gushing factory freezeplugs (97 Dakota) still holding great, 3000 miles desert driving so far. Got city water, no more hauling.
Tech tip- DO NOT TRY OATMEAL!🙄
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary fix.
UTG: So generous with know-how. Impossible to over-estimate the value of this category of wisdom.
The old Solder-Seal / Alumaseal was great stuff too. A metallic looking powder that came in little cardboard tubes.
I keep this in my glovebox, just in case.
Never seen it in cardboard tube, but in a clear plastic cylinder. And I prefer the egg and pepper
@@DougsterWolverineGarage had a whole sleeve of these that you would find in the auto parts stores. In the 80's/90's it was in little cardboard tubes with metal ends. The product of that vintage was excellent. Im a fan of cayenne pepper too, it works quite well.
I remember using those
That product might tear up the water pump bearing.
GM actually used those tabs in the early 80s on the caddy HT4100 series engines...
New slogan Cooking with Tony and I liked the video never new you could do that
Those AC Delco tabs were called out in the factory service manual for the '85 Cadillac Eldorado I once had. Had to use them pretty frequently as the recommended coolant replacement interval was pretty tight since the HT4100 was a rather fragile engine.
GM Factory used to drop them in radiators before filling with coolant.
Ahhh, the 'ol "hook-n-tow" 4.1!
I remember taking apart the late 90's, early 2000's GM garbage. Cooling systems would look like somebody took a turd inside them and then they put the engine together. All the plastic intake gaskets🤣
This trick works VERY well. I blew a hole in my rad in my 1980 C10 with the original rad a year and a half ago. Isolated in northern Ontario, pulling my camper with my wife and son! The hole was at the bottom of the rad and I had a bit of water in a jug, I topped it off and added 2 tablespoons of table pepper. Within 15 miles, the leak slowed down. Within 40 miles it was completely plugged. I got home, swapped in a new rad and all is good. One issue: my heater core got plugged from it too, so I needed to replace it, but not for months. Pepper works brilliantly!!!! Best road trip hack ever.
I've used the pepper remedy many times back in the day for dripping leak and oatmeal for the severe leak. I didn't know eggs would work but, now i do. Thanks Uncle Tony 👍
I used those tablets on the assembly line, building Dodge trucks in the '00s. Two tabs, fill, cap. I was really surprised when I was being trained for that job, that it was part of the process from the factory. I figured it was just compressed saw dust, like mdf. A pocket full made it home with me, maybe a dozen. They've helped me out of a few pinches.
Good job uncle Tony
On the subject of food and car engines,
here in Australia there has been a number of people over the years whom put out recipes on how to cook while you’re driving across the Nullarbor using aluminium foil and putting things like steak and potatoes wrapped up and wired down to the exhaust manifold whilst you’re driving and there’s one fella, who put out a whole recipe book of how to cook using the heat from the motor under the bonnet….!!!
Mainly things like meat, carrots, potatoes, you never see them using eggs for some reason ………. But a side of lamb no problem……..
Thanks Tony, now I'm hungry.
Hi Tony, GM had a seperate part number for Cadillacs in the late 80's for their 4.1 engines that was supposed to be put in the radiator every time that the radiator cap was removed. Cadillacs had issues with the intake manifolds bolts would lose torque and let coolant into the crankcase. I also have a 1995 Chevy C3500 with a 5.7 and 282K miles on it. The intake has a seeping external leak and I have been putting GM seal tabs in it for the last 20 years to keep it from leaking. I also put seal tabs of my 62 Valiant aluminum 225 slant 6 that had corrosion on the back of the block covered by the bell housing. The seal tabs worked so well that when the head gasket blew it pushed coolant out of a heater hose connection and not from the back of the block.
Good info AND emergency rations.
I remember using the "Sealtabs" in the early 90s when I worked for the local GM dealership. It was , like you said, SOP any time we worked on the cooling system. Thanks for the great video.
Brilliant!
I like adding salt to the eggs & pepper. A couple of straps of bacon & some toast works best.
Appreciate you Uncle Tony!
TANG works. Uncle Cathy has the info on the right amount of scoops.
That sounds like a good video for someone to make. I dont have any disposable engines and radiators that i want to sacrifice for science though.
I'm dating myself but I'm asking you a question about finding the old GM emulsions seal renewal? I love that stuff door seals T roofs trunk lids you used to slather with a cotton applicator and it would renew and it would swell up old rubber seals overnight
Sage street smarts from the mean streets of the Bronx & Andy Grifith! I remember an eppisode where goober droped an egg in a Model A & then used Gran' Pa's suspenders for a belt. Tony, I bet you have a THOUSAND roadkill style survival stories...would love to hear about them. Vice grips on the battery terminals...Cylanders full of fence posts...chewing gum wrappers around blown fuses...not all recomended...BUT, if it got you out of harms way...until proper repairs could be made....GOTTA be proud of them.
These items do work. I remember years ago when GM started using those pellets. I ordered a replacement part at a dealer and they added those to the order and I thought they were ripping me off! I called them and said, why would I need stop leak since I'm replacing the water pump? They told me GM had now made these mandatory to all their cars and I needed them for any warranty.
Key Word in it.... "Temporary"
I've been asked about the Pepper & Egg trick many times, and technically..... yes it will get you off the side of the road or out of mountains if you need it.
But that's about all it will do because just like you said, it will blow right back out.
That is why I tell everyone that askes..... "No, it doesn't work" I just got tired of people coming back and saying it only lasted for 3 days or a week and it did it again.
As for the GM Pellets. You put them in the lower radiator hose, so it coats the inside of the block (and most of those cars don't have a radiator cap). As you said in this, it's not really a "Stop Leak Fix" it's more of a coating you put in for the exact reasons you mentioned. Minor leaks.... it probably does but it's not what it's actually designed to do.
On a side note, to this....... Eggs Stink to High Heaven!!!!!!!!! I don't know how many dozens of eggs this guy tried in one, but when it came into the shop it was an experience I'll NEVER forget.
Good Stuff as always UTG!
My grandfather told me never use stop leak but rather eggs. He claimed Ford used to put eggs in the radiator right on the assembly line (im guessing in the 30s or 40s). Not sure if that's a myth or not.
I don't know why I found it so funny, but at 8-10 pounds the eggs will get blown right out 🤣 You're the real deal Tony, one of my best subscriptions
Great old-school tip there Tony. Have done the egg trip to crawl home at least twice, maybe more! But can confirm it does work.
As called out, key is to not pop the rad cap on all the way.
Happy new year! 😎
AWESOME info UT. Didnt know about the tabs, taste like chicken...lol MOPAR 4 EVER.
I used to carry tube of alumseal just in case. Never had any problems with it sealing anything but the leak.
Here u a good one, u talking about stop leak being bad for ur engine, the first ad in ur vidio was for bars leak
Here's a better good one: Try writing and spelling like something other than a low-hanging fruit.
Possibly tune down a coolant pump squeaking for a bit ?
We used dried horse manure for cooling system leaks, worked great!
I have personally used this for myself and a broke down van in the middle of the desert......small jar of MUSTARD worked so fast & saved the day (the really small jar)
Those pellets sound like the beginning of a good chicken korma recipe 😂
Heck yea. Lol.
Fix it with food,like the boss did to the new guy trying to adjust a worn carb. This was years ago.
While it was running ,the boss sauntered over while eating a big mac.
He grabbed the throttle and yanked it wide open and crammed the burger in the carb 😂
My late grandfather taught me these tricks. He worked in the north Maine woods as pulp scaler deep upcountry far from help. He made gaskets from paper shopping bags, what ever needed to keep going.
My Kiwi mate had a Valiant with a 245 cube six and a Borg Warner 35 tranny, it had a leak in the welch plug at the back of the head that I found him trying to repair with one of his girlfriend’s tampons. When this proved futile I suggested using eggs as I knew from previous experience that he had no intention of fixing it correctly. It worked so well that he went through a dozen eggs a day. The engine also consumed four litres of oil on an average day so every time the temp gauge rose to a dangerous level the person riding shotgun would spring from the vehicle with eggs, water and oil for a refill then on for another twenty k’s. As it had no reverse the passenger was also required to be the Auxiliary Propulsion Unit. To add to the overall effect the muffler was ripped open on a grate so the roiling black smoke rolled out from under the back. We called this “going full Maori”. Kiwi would understand.
Hit a deer in a 69 Dodge D200, a $400 truck I had on the 90s while my 1 ton diesel was in the shop. Damned radiator broke loose on top and hit the fan. I'm in Minnesota industrial farm country, nothing but corn and bean fields for miles, no lakes, rivers, or swamps. Fortunately, the air compressor I was pulling had a 6V-71 engine, and more importantly 15 gallons of coolant.
Get to the next "town" there's a C-store open, they got Stop Leak, grab one of each brands, three or four, whatever they had. Dump um all in, no change. Bought more in the next town, nothing. I think eggs probably would've worked, didn't think of it at the time. Made it home filling the radiator every few miles, 318 missing from wet wires.
Next day my 4 or 5 year old daughter and I soldered up the radiator. She's 30 now, and solders really really well. 🤣
I use the Pepper and Eggs together, even used it on a headgasket weep. Car still runs since 2018
I don’t know about today but, Jaguar used to recommend using Barr’s Leak anytime the cooling system was serviced. ex. water pump replacement
I'm pretty sure Suzuki used to add bars leaks to the coolant in the water cooled dirt bikes like 82 RM250.
Cream of wheat stops leaks. I saw it in my radiator shop years ago. It also stopped all the flow. The guy said it stopped the leak but it started leaking again, so he poured in the rest of the box. The car came to me on a tow truck. When I removed the offending tank, there was a perfect solid piece of cream of wheat that was the shape of the tank and it fell on the floor. The shop smelled like breakfast. We hot tanked the radiator, flushed the system, and put the radiator back together. He was good to go.
You forgot the Wonder Bread radiator fix. Ball it up into dough and stick it on the leak. Hardens up like concrete.
Back in 1979, a slant six pulled in with 2 an a half crack in the block, my cuban friend mixed the egg whites with crushed red peppers, mixed them, add them and it instantly sealed the leak.
Beef jerky for a temp motorcycle clutch plate....smells good too
Wouldn't a sausage patty work best?😆
In the UK , egg in the rad is well known but never heard of adding pepper.we used Colmans mustard powder. Also sawdust in noisy trans. Condensed milk will stick tiles tiles back on!
Happy New Year to you, Cathy, your family and fiends!!!
None of these hot tips work on my air-cooled Corvair. It just blew pepper into the airflow I've been sneezing ever since. THANKS A LOT Uncle Tony.
I've used pepper many times with excellent results
I have also seen the use of sawdust as a temporary leak fix
i tried to ship some "Alumaseal" from the USA to here in Mexico and the DHL/Customs could not determine contents and prohibited its entry. Thankfully, I later found it in a local Mexican auto parts store. Still like the product.
This was unbelievable. I'm old and never heard of this. Pretty cool. Thanks
Ok the black pepper thing is new to me. I should try that one out on a 1966 El Camino. The eggs are an old trick. Known guys to use it. I’ve been down that road of putting too much stop leak in a radiator and gumming stuff up. I do like the GM coolant tabs. Used them a couple times.
Sunlight bar soap for pinholes gastank leaks
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I enjoyed hearing Uncle Tony’s recipes for emergency coolant leak repair!
Cooking with Tony. Love it.
Cooking with UTG 👍 Another temporary fix for a slipping fanbelt is syrup. And there's no need for fancy expensive maplesyrup ones, unless you live in Cananada!
Saw eggs, pepper and oatmeal used by my dad's okie buddy back in the late 60's on an old '56 chevy with a leaky radiator. I was just a teenage gear head wannabe, couldn't believe what I was seeing and yet...it worked!
I remember in the early 70s driving thru baja and mainland off road and getting coolant/ radiator damage 50 miles f r om anywhere and using surf wax into the radiator grills and red chilli pepper,and driving Another 500 miles successfully! True story
We need more of those old school get home quick fix to keep the knowledge in the memories. My uncle even clog a hole cylinder with a wood block on is inline 6 in the 60's after he broke a connecting rod and piston. He drove that engine for 2 years. It was like that back then. You didnt have money or a car parts store every where.
I have never heard of this and got a laugh out of it! Now I can say I’ve heard everything!
The eggs definitely work had a 73 ford in the desert and all we had was an egg and it did the job. Worked so well never even replaced the radiator
I have seen older mechanics and shade tree mechanics do some of the fixes you are talking about. I never used them but on older cars certainly worth a try.
Thankyou Uncle Tony, i have an SBC 400 with a tiny leak from a head bolt and wondered if i should use a bottle of bars. Ill take the bolt out and put more thread sealant on it.
Iv done it. It works. Iv also cleaned a cylinder head that had stop leak in it. Idk seemed like more the a can. Boi what a plugged up mess. Also a good mention, never ever ever put cold gas station gallons of water in your radiator. If your having a problem. Room temperature is what you want
Skol long cut works great
Never heard of eggs, I agree with the stop leak issues, except one the plastic tube with the brass or copper shavings, had an 1987 Chevy truck with 350 motor, heater core leaking put the shavings in at around 60k miles it stopped the leak, drove the truck over 200k miles never leaked again and heater still worked. Thought after flushing I would need to install new heater core but nope never leaked again.
The pepper has made a believer outta me over the years.
GM tab's are strongly mandated starting with the Cadillac HT series, aluminum block iron head's, and I make sure to use it every year or two when I flush and replace the coolant in my 91 Coup DeVille....it works, but when the steel pipe the lower radiator hose goes to corrodes a hole, none of that junk will help.
This is the long awaited, by 5 years, prequel to the UTG radiator hack video. I preferred the pacing, brevity, stunt work, practical effects and swearing of the original video. "Oh No! The rad-iator in our old school daily driver is Fuc*%d!!" "It's got a crack in the tank, so eggs and pepper won't do." Please swear again Uncle Tony. We like the director's cut of UTG.
Would that work on the Mission Impossible 318?
Dang, the freeze plugs started leaking in my '95 T-10 Blazer with a Vortec V6. I paid a mechanic a few hundred $$$ to replace them all. Too bad this video didn't exist back then, or I would have tried these tablets.
A lot of guys will mix up some JB Weld or epoxy and that works good on freeze plugs.
Have you ever used coffee grounds to plug up a leak?
Those tablets actually started in the 80s as a requirement in the 4.1L V8 that came in the Cadillac and then remained required for the Northstar motors
Interesting, I have never heard of the cooling tabs!